http://bombayology.net MIT Workshop for Urban Historians and Ethnographers Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:22:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our last session this semester will be on WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 2.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. when we will discuss: Primary Text Janaki Nair, The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press India, 2005). Supplementary Texts Janaki Nair, Beladide Noda Bengaluru Nagara!, ... http://bombayology.net/2008/05/20/bangalores-twentieth-century/ Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of historian Swati Chattopadhyay. Primary Text Chattopadhyay, Swati. Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny. Routledge, 2006. Supplementary Texts Sudipta Kaviraj, "Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and ... http://bombayology.net/2008/05/04/representing-calcutta/ Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 23 APRIL 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of geographer Stephen Legg on New Delhi. Primary Text Stephen Leggg. Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities. Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. Supplementary Texts Stephen P. Blake, Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in ... http://bombayology.net/2008/04/19/delhis-urban-govermentalities/ Panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) on Friday 18 April 2008 from 4:40 to 6:20 p.m. in Great Republic #7 at the Westin Copley Place Hotel, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Panel Over the last decade, Mumbai has become far more prominent within international coverage of ... http://bombayology.net/2008/04/15/mumbai-in-a-world-of-cities/ Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 2 APRIL 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. when we will discuss the work of historian Sandip Hazareesingh. Primary Text Hazareesingh, Sandip. The Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity : Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Bombay City 1900-1925. New ... http://bombayology.net/2008/03/14/urban-hegemonies-and-civic-contestations-in-bombay/ Our next session will be on WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH 2008 in MIT E51-195 from 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. Primary Text Glover, William J. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Supplementary Texts Glover, William J. “Objects, Models, and Exemplary Works: Educating Sentiment in Colonial ... http://bombayology.net/2008/03/03/making-lahore-modern/ Our group reconvenes after a hiatus of almost a year on TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY at 6.30 p.m. at MIT E51-195 . Please join us for dinner and conversation on the work of urban historian Prashant Kidambi. Primary Text Kidambi, Prashant. The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in ... http://bombayology.net/2008/02/18/the-making-of-an-indian-metropolis-2/ Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria. “Street Hawkers and Public Space in Mumbai.” Economic and Political Weekly, May 27, 2006. http://bombayology.net/2008/02/17/street-hawkers-and-public-space-in-mumbai/ This is the list of our public meetings and primary texts for the group in Spring 2008. Our meetings are from 6.30 to 8.30 p.m. in the MIT Program in Science Technology & Society (STS) in Building E51, Room 195. Tuesday 19 February 2008 Kidambi, Prashant. The Making of an Indian Metropolis: ... http://bombayology.net/2008/02/13/spring2008/ The Students Council and Students of Color Committee of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the South Asia Forum at MIT invite you to a screening of the documentary film "Q2P" directed by Paromita Vohra on FRIDAY 27 APRIL at 6.00 P.M. in the Audio-Visual Theatre in ... http://bombayology.net/2007/04/27/q2p/ The Indian economy underwent a radical transformation from the late nineteenth century onwards under the twin impact of global capitalism and financial needs of British imperial networks. Complex interactions among these factors contributed to the emergence of a large industrial sector comprising mining, tea and coffee plantations, railway networks, cotton ... http://bombayology.net/2007/04/01/rajnaryan-shamrao-chandavarkar-1953-2006/ Roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting on THURSDAY 22 March 2007 from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. Salon E, 4th Floor, Boston Marriott Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 Labour Space and Politics: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and the History of Modern South Asia Rajnarayan Chandavarkar was one of the ... http://bombayology.net/2007/03/22/labour-space-and-politics-aas-roundtable-on-raj-chandvarkar/ MAIN TEXTS Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, "From Neighbourhood to Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Left in Bombay's Girangaon in the 20th Century", introductory essay from Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar, One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices: The Mill Workers of Girangaon: An Oral History (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2004). Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, "Workers' Politics ... http://bombayology.net/2007/03/15/remembering-raj-chandavarkar/ PAPER Srinivas, Tulasi. “Divine Enterprise: Hindu Priests and Ritual Change in Neighbourhood Hindu Temples in Bangalore.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 29, no. 3 (2006): 321. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Ashley, Wayne. “The Stations of the Cross: Christ, Politics, and Processions on New York City's Lower East Side.” In Gods of the ... http://bombayology.net/2006/12/12/divine-enterprise-in-bangalore/ PAPER Eric Lewis Beverley, "Improvising Urbanism: Aesthetics and Sanitation in the Making of Modern Hyderabad", draft chapter from dissertation in the Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures, Harvard University, 2006ms. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Brush, John E. “The Morphology of Indian Cities.” In India’s Urban Future: Selected Studies from an International Conference sponsored by Kingsley Davis, Richard ... http://bombayology.net/2006/12/05/planning-princely-hyderabad/ PAPER Anand Vivek Taneja, Columbia University, "The Archaeology of Myth: The Myth of Archaeology: The Pasts and Present of the Purana Qila" Anand Vivek Taneja, "History and Heritage Woven in the New Urban Fabric: The Changing Landscapes of Delhi's 'First City', 1995-2005 (or, Who Can Tell the Histories of Lado Sarai?)" SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Bayly, ... http://bombayology.net/2006/11/14/delhi-in-ruins/ PAPER Nikhil Rao, "An Indian Suburbia", chapter 1 from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS Archer, John. “Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1750-1850, and the Spaces of Modernity.” In Visions of Suburbia, edited by Roger Silverstone, 26-54. New York: Routledge, 1997. Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The ... http://bombayology.net/2006/10/31/colonial-suburbanization/ We will meet for a screening of the film C.I.D. (1956) on TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 7.00 p.m. See you this evening and feel free to bring friends. http://bombayology.net/2006/10/17/cid/ Main Texts Patrick Geddes, Selection from "Cities in Evolution" from Marshall Stalley, ed., Patrick Geddes: Spokesman for Man and the Environment, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1972. Patrick Geddes, "Committee on Collaboration between the Bombay University and Bombay City" (Maharashtra State Archives, Educational Department, 1920) Patrick Geddes, "Essential of Sociology in Relation to ... http://bombayology.net/2006/10/03/patrick-geddes-in-india/ You are cordially invited to a talk and presentation by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, media historian and archivist from the Centre for the Study of Culture & Society in Bangalore, India on THURSDAY 11 MAY 2006 at 5.00 p.m. Ashish will introduce the Comprehensive Online Resource for Education (CORE), a recent ... http://bombayology.net/2006/05/11/11/ PAPERS Nikhil Rao, "The City as Subject: The Acquisitions of the Bombay Improvement Trust" (chapter 1) from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms Ashish Rajadhyaksha, "The Contrasting Case of Bombay" (unfinished) chapter from forthcoming book Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: Indian Evidence 2005-1925 (New Delhi: Tulika Books, ... http://bombayology.net/2006/05/10/urban-lands/ We will be screening Raj Kapoor's classic film Shree 420 on TUESDAY 9 MAY 2006 from about 5.45 to 8.45 p.m., with discussion to follow. Released in 1955 and set in Bombay, Shree 420 is one of the most influential products of the ... http://bombayology.net/2006/05/09/shree-420/ Paper Svati Shah, "Sex Work and Secrecy" (ch.4) and "The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work" (ch.5) from Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, dissertation submitted to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, 2005. Primary Texts David Harvey, "Introduction" and "On Bodies and ... http://bombayology.net/2006/05/03/sex-work-and-migration/ Paper Sarah Waheed, "Bombay and the Adeeb: Exploring Spaces of Sociability amongst Urdu Intellectuals, 1899-1965", draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, Tufts University (2006) Primary Texts Ismat Chugtai, "From Bombay to Bhopal" Sadat Hasan Manto, "Ismat Chugtai" Walter Benjamin, "Berlin Chronicle" in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, Peter Demetz, ed., Edmund ... http://bombayology.net/2006/04/19/social-space/ Paper Nikhil Rao, "The Bourgeois Street in Bombay", draft chapter of dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms Primary Texts Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City and Appendices to The Image of the City (1960). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Of Garbage, Modernity and the Citizen's Gaze" in ... http://bombayology.net/2006/04/05/urban-form/ Paper Nikhil Rao, "House, But No Garden: Apartment Living in Bombay in the 1930s" and "Caste, Community and the Cooperative Society: The Emergence of Dadar-Matunga as Ethnic Neighbourhood in Bombay", draft chapters from dissertation in the Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms Primary Texts Robert E. Park, "The City: Suggestions for the ... http://bombayology.net/2006/03/15/social-ecology/ Paper Eric Lewis Beverley. "Cosmopolitanism from Charminar to Cantontment: Urban Hyderabad and Colonialism", draft chapter from dissertation in the Department of Indo-Islamic Cultures, Harvard University, 2006ms. Primary Texts David Harvey. "Paris, 1850-1870" and "Monument and Myth: The Building of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart" in Consciousness and The Urban Experience: Studies in ... http://bombayology.net/2006/03/01/historical-geography/ Primary Text Henri Lefebrve, The Urban Revolution (1969). Robert Bononno, trans. London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Supplementary Texts Henri Lefebvre, "Plan of the Present Work" in The Production of Space (1974), Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans., Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, pp.1-67. Edward W. Soja, "The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre" (chapter 1) and ... http://bombayology.net/2006/02/15/the-urban-revolution/ Civic Sensibility: Bombay in the Twenties and Thirties Clifford Manshardt, Pioneering on Social Frontiers in India, Bombay: Lalvani Publishing House, 1967. Clifford Manshardt, ed., Bombay Today and Tomorrow: Eight Lectures at the Nagpada Neighbourhood House. Bombay: D.B. Taraporevala and Sons and Co., 1930 ——, ed., How the Bombay Municipality Works: A Symposium ... http://bombayology.net/2006/01/15/twentieth-century-mumbai/ Our next screening is tomorrow SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER at 9.00 P.M. Based on the Godfather, Sarkar (2005) is the last in an unique trilogy of films by director Ram Gopal Varma on the Mumbai criminal-political underworld. Satya (1998), the first film in the series, was a new kind of gangster film ... http://bombayology.net/2005/11/19/sarkar/ LEXICON OF THE CLICHES, BANALITIES AND TRUISMS OF INDIAN JOURNALISM Conceived by Nikhil Rao and Shekhar Krishnan Contributions by David Clingingsmith, Aaron York, Eric Beverley, Arvind Rajagopal, Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Namita Devidayal, Shailaja Neelakanthan, Anagha Neelakanthan, Rajeev Rao, Avtar Singh, Rohan Sippy, Rohena Gera, Rochona Mazumdar, Paul Beban, Sanjay Bulchandani Introduction (Mumbai, 18 August ... http://bombayology.net/2000/08/18/lexicon-of-indian-journalese/